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Awkward Meeting

Despite the blisters on my unshod feet I start hobbling down the bumpy street With my head lifted high up in the air Looking for all the world without care (And to the passers-by who often stare Well, I just pretend they’re not there) Others quite simply haven’t a clue That I’m struggling my way - to see YOU Therefore nothing will now stop me Hence my ignoring not walking properly I just carry on going on my weary way Knowing you’ll soon be there to say “Why are you walking without shoes?!” Giving me time to then gently muse I then explain how much you’re missed … Before I realise not just shoes

Sugar Happy

63 deviations
Literature

Whispers of Two Hearts

Water gathers, soft The gentle spring enraptures Carrying the scent Of lilies drawn and in bloom Forever for you The strength that passes From your heart and into mine Souls can be at peace Entwined amidst the fragrance Deepest love blossoming through

Lovey Dovey

363 deviations
Literature

SVCH A J0LLY GXXD TIME/Lets go dive into a Blade

It’s a Christmas miracle! All for one and one for all! God will make the softly frozen H2O Cover the ground in undisturbed white. (Like there is something to hide) We are, all of us, just like the snowflakes (If you can afford it) We are unique and special, but we will converge always When we place reminders of our balance Out in the world for none to see, But all to feel… …silent, but monolithic all the same Millions walking under shadows that they Can not grasp, can not swing a torch at Shadows like the depths of the ocean, Rushing down a breath of air On me, on you, on fried rice, on every little fucking thing you could possibly imagine They come in many shapes and styles Wrapped in pink Dressed in plastic Stretch over elastics In the cracks of programming In the classics that old folks sing In those FIVE!!!!! FIVE!!!!! FIVE!!!!! FIVE!!!!! FIVE MUTHAFUCKIN DIAMOND RINGZ!!!!! (And a paralyzed partridge in a pickled pear tree or whatever) Ooooweee Was that some bebop

Let's Rant

128 deviations
Literature

DoubleOrangeSunshineNoIce

I just wanna drop acid with a G.0.T.H. Girl Take her out of her boots And lick her feet Till I suck something through the skin That’s almost as good as Therapy Contorting Worm Convulsing Cat This whole day Is Scarlet Red I just wanna hang onto the curly hair of a Skater boy Feel his wiry frame Till something appears in my body That let‘s me forget my wings are lame Like the bow of a ship I will rush into that water Again and again In spite of constant blows From the precursors to the storm I just wanna drop an old TV from the tenth floor Watch it suspended in fall all the way down Hear the tubes crush and implode A noise to drown for a second‘s splitter A rush that implodes And fades like the glitter that rains at the End Of The Show Why I want these things I‘ll never know But I guess I don’t have to justify my needs Not even to myself That’s not how Chaos Magik works At least not as far as I’m concerned So I’ll just draw another Sigil Try and use it like a window Be like

Smexy Time

72 deviations
Literature

Perfect darkness

The world Falls into darkness There are no more stars to see A fog of silence A mist cold as death Freezes the air instantly And the weak tremble Their eyes shut In agonizing fear Animals gone mad Instincts broken By the chaos found within Scream Beg for forgiveness Plead for life that once has been When nothingness reigns Terrors are awoken When boundaries break down Only timeless torture Remains

Horror

147 deviations
Literature

A lesson about pain

Today they speak of death And whisper tales of immense pain A stream of stingers Flows within their tangled roots Peels off their flesh It fuses with the leaves and shadows It soaks the mosses That envelop their ageing forms They lost their brothers ages ago Suffocated beneath hard summer ground They lost their sisters To the floods of a cruel winter To the frost of darkest nights They witnessed their four-legged fellows Get slaughtered and dismembered Get forgotten and carried off So today, they speak of sorrow They reveal the mud and the foul dirt Feeding their majestic bodies They speak of life Yes, they also suffered Yes, they trembled in wind from fear Today, their torment fills all From the Earth’s crust to the highest peak From the fragile blades of grasses Through my hands outstretched in awe All the way into my veins And I greet this agony Through which the nature shapes the world I bow to the moans of twisted branches As they in turn Acknowledge the pains of my own I take

Simply Inspired

512 deviations
Literature

Dead of winter

The nature sleeps so I must be awake In dead of winter My blood boils and my fingers twitch My mind reaching out To the twisting roots hidden underneath The sea is frozen so I must run In circles waiting for a signal to slow down Snow-white wind chills to the bone And the moon is silent As if also waiting for salvation In darkness of the mighty woods Here I stalk threads of my innocence Frail and shaking to the core I do not let up Until I leave my earthly body and its mind Until but the idea of me remains Branches rustle anticipating My return to the soil that feeds them And I wonder if I ever was at all Or if the trees are merely dreaming of me

Short Poems

617 deviations
Literature

Oh Lucy, Where Art Thou?

Between the "every-once-in-a-while"'s And the "once-upon-a-time"'s There are Heroes and Villians Empires and Fiefdoms Operas with belting singers Marching armies with war drums But there are also cracks in the foundation Through which to slip through There is the static between stations Where there is too much information for music There are personas neither protagonist, nor antagonist, nor peasant or specter They are the sinew connecting darkness They are radium in the heather They are in the background of the crowd shot Looking straight through the camera One of them is Lucy They always told her she's S.P.E.C.I.A.L. But more than they ever could have known Conventions wouldn't have her story told But I don't care, so here it goes... Born under the star of the antivaxer Wasn't as dumb as the others But crazier than ever Led chip diet and inhaling the fumes That the bus stop below blows into her room No questions needed, the truth she already knew. Like how the senators are

Everyday Life

234 deviations
Literature

Mine

My art takes many forms- subtle brush strokes touch down... in my mind- not on the canvas. Paper folded over, origami, my way. Out of focus and that is on purpose delighting in the bright lens flare. Riccardo- that's my muse, plays hide and seek sometimes. He adds sugar and sprinkles to the mix; inspiring fattening fantasies. Writing pretty stories can come easy sometimes... the words stubborn they just fire when ready. My masterpiece made in only periwinkle crayon says everything I need. Riccardo winks, hands me a glass of wine smiles indulgently- knowingly I turn another page, begin again for me.

Writing Without Thinking

147 deviations
Literature

Earthen

If the ego that we build For ourselves is living Then this is a destruction An apocalypse That no one made-up can survive Take my hand, now withered by pain Caress the moss on my fingers And come with me where horizon never ends Where the time is always present If memories are ocean waves Then I will be the sun My lava scorching the seabed that we walk Ash falls upon bleached corpses And new life sprouts, cleansed of spirits We have no future For we’re not built on abstract wishes We have got no past For it was not us who came into this place If blackness is fright Then let me wrap myself in darkness Underneath rocks and entangled roots I will hold the very earth with care I will seep into it naked I will leave my flesh and bones behind Not afraid to disappear For there is nowhere that this mind could hide And I will let the earth absorb me I will hear its rumbling within my own breath "Stone, sand, mud and living creatures There is need for all shapes and forms They all belong

Long and Wordy

98 deviations
Literature

The Beast's Landfall

Каию You dared reaching your greedily sprawling hand into Europe again... It wasn't even 24 hours before rockets slammed into civilian homes A fitting aesthetic for what was a War Crime all along I heard your speech It was like Goebbels wrote for Stalin Revisionism 305 Advanced Propaganda that harkens Back to glory days that never were While spitting husks of language into the camera You are a liar, a murderer, in short, a dictator and to you the world is a house of kidnapped whores I live two hours of flight next door In a country that has done the same shit you try to pull before Blitzkrieg Lebensraum Blood and soil Something we claim can happen nevermore ...then we turn on the news And we see that one man's madness stands above international generations efforts of change As it always has I know I'll see all politicians in hell When you get there you might wanna holler at Cyrus the Great He could tell you about some S.H.I.T Regarding Empires and their

Dark Angst

287 deviations
Literature

snowy crescendo

Winter is dancing Sweeping flurries crystalize Grand jete blizzard

Haikus

316 deviations

Emotional

590 deviations
Literature

The shadow and the mask

Who’s the shadow underneath the mask Who’s the sad clown With a knife behind her back Who’s the secret whisperer And the maker of all dreams Who’s the fragile thread That connects present with the past Who’s the conqueror of pain Who is the child hurt and who licks the scars Who’s the voice that never stops As long as time ticks Who’s the watcher behind the tinted glass The true self never dies Covered by dirt and shame it hides It struggles its way through the tides The shadow and the mask The nameless one behind both lies

Philisophical

298 deviations
Literature

Straightforward Ingenuous

I’m lost in the world in my head, don’t think I’ll ever go back. Don’t wanna stay in the cruel “real world”. I’d rather have my dreams. Don’t ask me to be a real person. Don’t tell me to be like everyone else. I haven’t found my true name yet, but when I do…. I’m going to be the one and only me, the one I always wished for- who sees the things I seek. I’m gonna make my dreams come true. I’m gonna do things my way. Of course you can watch if you’d like, but make sure to heed what I say: I don’t wanna be part of the real world- I’d rather live

Song and Lyrics

99 deviations
Literature

Common Enemy???

Common Enemy??? No, There Is No Common Enemy!!! Now: Half of us is the system. Next Moment: Half of us is the system. but not the same half. Eternal Common King: Gold Or Hunger.

Quotes

4 deviations
Literature

Endure and Prevail

Parting was an awakening then a curse, but I knew, evermore, that Winterfell would stand. Fantasies replaced by realities and war but I knew, faithfully, that Winterfell would stand. Blackened and broken, pieces have fallen, then I woke, from being naive, could it always stand? The night was dark and full of great beasts creatures of legend reborn, taking their own stand. The dead, they rise and walk throughout the night and as the daylight wanes, does Winterfell still stand? The wolf and the dragon, their armies unite taking charge together, for us all they take a stand. Fire and blood is not enough, nor is his sacrifice, he will do h

Fan Related

15 deviations
Literature

Black Flag

The rats in the hallway just might be humans It feels like a whole „first-half-of-the-20th-century“ in here between twilight and evening before I can return to feeding I don’t collect blood in goblets I‘m looking for something more involved Walk with a hobble to hide your sword I always use flags for oil rags I‘m looking for something less revolved Around the bends and blues Of a Spirit or a Ghost I‘ll point a Ouija board south To where my trash is I hope I wont add it to the island of plastic When I toss it When I admit that I lost it When my joints produce creaking groans You’ve seen the things I wrote You wouldn’t feel the same about me If you saw my humble abode Sometimes I‘d prefer it if I could be Nothing but my liner notes I‘d just hunt the neophytes That try to take my city for ca$h Take your anemic ass back to university, stat Gentrification disturbed the BeatniK combat class Consummate a Black Flag mass It’s just another day down The Left Hand Path The way

Musically Inspired

16 deviations
New Day

Visual Poetry

39 deviations
Literature

Chocolate is Dog Poison

The Sun is an endless Explosion Here to give you cancer Fun is a short lived convulsion That doesn't make you a dancer Your running TV is an IV drip For the fleeting Escapist And simply statistically speaking Your neighbor is probably a rapist Don't tell me about the serotonin In your suburban people farm Don't tell me about the diet of your Unicorn Don't tell me about your trip to a country with a warmer climate There are freezing kids in Canada with icicles on their eyelids I could have been in a better mood But then I woke up I could have had a more successful breakfast but I threw up I could've taken my own advice But fuck that guy You could've taken my advice But fuck me right? Don't tell me about the oxytocin You get from having fun with lotion Don't tell me about your lack of locusts I feel like we are loosing focus It's much more important to analyze why it enticed me to run that Grandma off the freeway. Or why I'm pushing buttons I don't understand in

Depression and Anxiety Works

24 deviations
Literature

Wings of White

snow falls gracefully floating and fluttering down winter’s butterflies

Nature

70 deviations
Literature

Worth

When you finally lie in all this darkness, you realize the light. It’s that flask within his hand. “May I?” He’s just like you, eyes blank and gone. That stare of his, it just pierces right through. “Are you the same? Do you want a drink too?” He gives you the flask and smiles. “Where is your light?” Flask, oh heavenly flask, it’s in your hand, it’s worth more than your soul. Drink, drown, desire. That’s you. That’s me.  That makes us two. Let us go down that path of stupidity. Let us drown this can empty. Let us desire every drop of high and darknes

Contest I

1 deviation
Literature

Book

I remember sitting by the riverside, watching the sunset. I remember waiting endlessly, for my end to be met. But then she came, up to me and said, "If you end it now, what will happen to the future? There's still hundreds of pages left, waiting for you to see and love. There's still so much life, full of smiles and stress." Her words struck me hard. Her words hit me into hell. Life is like a book, a rising action, climax, and fall. But then it starts over again, building more mountains and all. I can't just watch myself, tumble off this mountain. Brush myself off, and trump up the wall. It will be steep, it will be rigorous. But there's

Contest II

3 deviations
Literature

Empty Without You

Empty Without You This hollow, emptiness I feel inside Came from what I no longer want to feel. I had decided to no longer hide What my heart had accepted to be real. I fell head over heels in love with you. I couldn't mask the feelings that had grown. You made me believe fairy tales were true When I thought I saw the same feelings shown. But love enjoys seeing me deal with pain. It loved how my heart sank when you said "No." It loves to see me surrounded by rain. It took away Juliet's Romeo. Now this has left me with nothing but tears. Now I have completely cried my heart out. Now you have resounded all of my fears. Now you are what I ha

Contest III

2 deviations